I found a chapter on "Participatory diagramming" very useful, providing applicable techniques and also critically discussing strengths and weakness of this method. Examples of diagrams are presented as well. Perhaps you will be interested if this may be one of method applicable to your research. Besides, the book is a very recent, comprehensively collecting essays on Participatory Action Research. I personally feel like the book is worth keeping at hand.
"Participatory diagramming: A critical view from North East England" in Participatory action research approaches and methods, Sara Louise Kindon, Rachel Pain, Mike Kesby Eds. pp112-122
The book on google book:
Showing posts with label Research approach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Research approach. Show all posts
5.25.2009
Key words for Research Agenda
On our way to come up with a proposal for research cluster, i suggested starting our shared understanding by throwing out key words in research agenda for each of us.
Sahera: everyday, space, occupation, oppression, resistance
Shu-Mei: everyday, right to the city, care ethics (caring relationships), appropriation, resistance
Andre: privatization, community, housing/real estate, everyday, migration(and moving), colonization
Ozge: to be added..
Apparently, "everyday" stands out to be our shared concern for now. However, all of them should be open to change and part of our discussion through the ongoing collaboration.
Sahera: everyday, space, occupation, oppression, resistance
Shu-Mei: everyday, right to the city, care ethics (caring relationships), appropriation, resistance
Andre: privatization, community, housing/real estate, everyday, migration(and moving), colonization
Ozge: to be added..
Apparently, "everyday" stands out to be our shared concern for now. However, all of them should be open to change and part of our discussion through the ongoing collaboration.
5.23.2009
"What is a theory, if not the articulatoin of a pracitce? "
Another quote from M. de Certeau that I am in love with right now:
"What is a theory, if not the articulatoin of a pracitce? And what is an epistemology, if not a discourse that elucidates that relationship?"
I am hoping that our cluster could be a pracitce of inquiry as such.
"What is a theory, if not the articulatoin of a pracitce? And what is an epistemology, if not a discourse that elucidates that relationship?"
I am hoping that our cluster could be a pracitce of inquiry as such.
5.01.2008
"raisins in dough"-Victor Turner's ethnographic approach
Some description and quotations found in Wiki's entry of Victor Turner are so impressive as follows. I personally appreciate his using raisins in dough as metaphor to implicate flickers and flashes of thoughts.
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Turner was also a committed ethnographer who constantly mused about his craft in his books and articles. Eclectic in his use of ideas borrowed from other theorists, he was rigorous in demanding that the ideas he developed illuminate ethnographic data; a theorist for theory's sake he was not. A powerful example of his attitudes can be found in the opening paragraph of the essay “Social Dramas and Ritual Metaphors” in Victor Turner (1974) Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society. There he writes,
In moving from experience of social life to conceptualization and intellectual history, I follow the path of anthropologists almost everywhere. Although we take theories into the field with us, these become relevant only if and when they illuminate social reality. Moreover, we tend to find very frequently that it is not a theorist’s whole system which so illuminates, but his scattered ideas, his flashes of insight taken out of systemic context and applied to scattered data. Such ideas have a virtue of their own and may generate new hypotheses. They even show how scattered facts may be systematically connected! Randomly distributed through some monstrous logical system, they resemble nourishing raisins in a cellular mass of inedible dough. The intuitions, not the tissue of logic connecting them, are what tend to survive in the field experience.
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Turner was also a committed ethnographer who constantly mused about his craft in his books and articles. Eclectic in his use of ideas borrowed from other theorists, he was rigorous in demanding that the ideas he developed illuminate ethnographic data; a theorist for theory's sake he was not. A powerful example of his attitudes can be found in the opening paragraph of the essay “Social Dramas and Ritual Metaphors” in Victor Turner (1974) Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society. There he writes,
In moving from experience of social life to conceptualization and intellectual history, I follow the path of anthropologists almost everywhere. Although we take theories into the field with us, these become relevant only if and when they illuminate social reality. Moreover, we tend to find very frequently that it is not a theorist’s whole system which so illuminates, but his scattered ideas, his flashes of insight taken out of systemic context and applied to scattered data. Such ideas have a virtue of their own and may generate new hypotheses. They even show how scattered facts may be systematically connected! Randomly distributed through some monstrous logical system, they resemble nourishing raisins in a cellular mass of inedible dough. The intuitions, not the tissue of logic connecting them, are what tend to survive in the field experience.
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